During the archaeological excavations conducted in 2005 in Begastri, was unearthed a ceramic bowl that contained inside a metal joint formed by 237 Islamic era silver coins, many of them fragmented, a gold pendant, 8 accounts bronze, a pearl and a piece of shell.

The meeting was held in the upper part of the city, in a place near the wall of one of the existing structures, and close to an entry located on the north side that connects the acropolis to the lower city, forming a branch in step the side facing the main entrance is located to the south. The contextualization of the findings did not provide much information because it seems that the land that was covered by a layer elongated revolt agricultural reclamation has withstood the hill over the centuries.

The Tesorillo, dating from the eleventh century, containing some 237 pieces of gold and silver coins, many of which are divided into pieces of small volume. The largest fraction of this cash is North African, coined by the Fatimid dynasty, rival of the Umayyads of al-Andalus and this cash, for the moment, most hiding found silver in the šarq Fatimid al-Andalus.

The set is a chronological range and adjusted rcorto quite broad features the first third of the eleventh century, since all the fragments could be identified were minted between the years 386-427 H. / 996-1036 JC in North Africa. We do not know the workshops that were minted, only a piece seems to read part of the name of the mint could be al-Mansuriya, in present-day Tunisia, an area where shops are located which left most of the coinage of silver findings found in the peninsular.

All Umayyad coins are present in all fragments and there is no whole part. These fragments are of different sizes and even visibly larger than the Fatimid cash in no case less than half of the piece. Only two reached an ounce of weight, being the largest who are close to a quarter coin, and so will decline to meet with small pieces of border that weighs just 0.10 g.

In the find next to the coins were hidden some valuables. The most striking is a small gold pendant length 15 mm and 8.4 mm at its widest point .
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